Cabinet De Gasperi VIII

The De Gasperi VIII cabinet ruled Italy from July 16, 1953 to August 17, 1953. After the parliamentary elections of June 7, 1953, the De Gasperi VII cabinet dutifully resigned. Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi was again tasked with forming a government because his Christian Democratic Party (DC) had once again emerged as the strongest political force. However, since the DC no longer had an absolute majority in parliament and a coalition was not formed, he entered parliament with a one-party government for a vote of confidence in parliament and suffered a defeat. After almost eight years in government, De Gasperi had to hand over his office to Giuseppe Pella . De Gasperi had foreseen the following chronic political instability and tried to counter it with an electoral reform . However, this reform was very similar to the Acerbo Act of 1923, which paved the way for the fascists to unlimited power. The protests against the electoral reform then contributed significantly to the loss of the absolute majority of the DC.

Cabinet List

Alcide De Gasperi

Ministries	Surname	Political party
Prime Minister	Alcide De Gasperi	DC
Deputy Prime Minister	Attilio Piccioni	DC
Exterior	Alcide De Gasperi	DC
Interior	Amintore Fanfani	DC
Judiciary	Guido Gonella	DC
defense	Giuseppe Codacci Pisanelli	DC
Finances	Ezio Vanoni	DC
treasure	Giuseppe Pella (ad interim)	DC
household	Giuseppe Pella	DC
Agriculture	Rocco Solomon	DC
Public Works	Giuseppe Spataro	DC
traffic	Giuseppe Togni	DC
Industry	Silvio Gava	DC
Foreign trade	Paolo Emilio Taviani	DC
post Office	Umberto Merlin	DC
Work and social	Leopoldo Rubinacci	DC
education	Giuseppe Bettiol	DC
Merchant marine	Bernardo Mattarella	DC
Minister with no portfolio	Surname	Political party
Southern Italy, economically weak areas	Pietro Campilli	DC

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literature

Denis Mack Smith: Modern Italy. A political history. New Haven / London 1997.